Music History Medieval



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Music

History

Medieval

Renaissance

Baroque

BASIC DATA




c. 800-1450

1450 - 1600

1600 - 1750




France, Italy

Italy, France, England

Germany, Italy,

England, France






Monks (Why?... ________, __________, ___________)

Leonin & Perotin

Machaut

Dufay



Des Prez

Palestrina

Byrd

Gabrieli


Monteverdi

Morley


Bach - keyboard music,

suites, cantatas

Handel - oratorios, operas,

suites


Vivaldi - concertos (many

for violin)



CHARACTERISTICS

FORMS

• Chant

• Organum

• Mass


• mass

• motet


• madrigal

• concerto

• opera


• oratorio

• cantata



• sonata

• fugue


• suite




voice, lute, sackbut, recorder, shawm (oboe), slide trumpet

Hurdy Gurdy



voice, organ (invented!), shawm, sackbut, viola da gamba

strings, harpsichord, voice, organ, flute, oboe,

french horn, timpani, (Chamber Orchestra)




ELEMENTS&

FEATURES


• monophonic texture;

polyphony began

• music notation (neumes)

• religious music

• monks / travelling

Musicians (minstrels)


• polyphonic texture

religious music

• a cappella vocal music

• word painting



  • travelling

Musicians (minstrels)

• polyphonic texture

• religious music

• binary forms

• terraced dynamics (no < >)

• improvisation

• ornamentation (trills...)






Chant = Haec Dies

anon. Royal Estampie #4



Farmer Fair Phyllis

Morley My Bonny Lass She Smileth



Handel Water Music; Messiah

Vivaldi Spring (Four Seasons)

Bach Toccata in d-





Music History

CLASSICAL

Romantic

CONTEMPORARY

BASIC DATA




1750 - 1825

1825 - 1900

1900 -




Germany/Austria,

France, Italy



Germany/Austria:

Schubert, Schumann,

Brahms, Wagner, Mahler

France: Berlioz, Bizet

Hungary: Liszt

Czechoslovakia: Dvorak

Russia: Tchaikovsky

Poland: Chopin

Italy: Verdi


France: Debussy, Ravel

Germany: Schoenberg, Berg

Russia: Stravinsky,

Prokofiev

Hungary: Bartok

UK: Holst, Britten

US: Copland, Ives;

also: JAZZ & ROCK






Haydn (1723-1809): 104

symphonies, string quartets

Mozart (1756-1791): 41

symphonies, operas, piano

Beethoven (1770-1827):

9 symphonies, piano

sonatas


CHARACTERISTICS


FORMS

• symphony

• string quartet

• sonata

• theme & variations

• rondo

• minuet


• opera (Mozart)

• symphony (expanded)

• opera (Verdi/Wagner)

• art song

• symphonic poem

• character piece (piano)


• Classical & Baroque forms

• formless music






add trumpet, clarinet, trombone

piano; add tuba, piccolo, harp, percussion

add saxophone, electronic instruments & more percussion


ELEMENTS&

FEATURES


highly structured

• homophonic texture

consonance

• aristocratic audience

• secular music

• ternary forms

• dynamics: < and >


expressive/emotional

• Nationalism; Program Music (music tells a story)

• homophonic to

polyphonic

• Some dissonance (new chords!)

middle class audience

• Expansion of forms… Leitmotifs

• dynamics: fff / ppp / fp /sfz



• highly dissonant

(generally)

• many styles:

impressionism

expressionism

serialism

atonality (no key)

aleatoric (random) music






Haydn Surprise Symphony

Mozart The Magic Flute;

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

Beethoven Symphony #5;



Moonlight Sonata

Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite

Dvorak Symphony #9 (New



World), II & IV

Wagner – “The Love Duet” – Tristan and Isolde

Copland Rodeo

Cage 4'33"



Crumb - Ancient Voices of

Children

Laurie Anderson – O Superman


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